August 2017 Newsletter
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
New Corpora
Multi-Language Conversational Telephone Speech 2011 -- South Asian
GALE Phase 4 Arabic Broadcast Conversation Speech
GALE Phase 4 Arabic Broadcast Conversation Transcripts
Announcements
Fall 2017 LDC Data Scholarship program - September 15 deadline approaching
There is still time to apply to the Fall 2017 LDC Data Scholarship program. Applications will be accepted through Friday September 15, 2017. The LDC Data Scholarship program provides university students with access to LDC data at no cost. Students must complete an application which consists of a data use proposal and letter of support from their advisor.
For more information on application requirements and program rules, please visit the LDC Data Scholarship page.
Applicants can email their materials to the LDC Data Scholarship program.
LDC at Interspeech 2017
LDC will once again be exhibiting at Interspeech, held this year August 20-24 in Stockholm, Sweden. Stop by booth 17 to learn more about recent developments at the Consortium and new publications.
Also, be on the lookout for the following presentations featuring LDC work:
Speaker Comparison for Forensic and Investigative Applications III
LDC Executive Director, Chris Cieri, panelist for Topic A: “Process Map and Standardization”
Special Event Session, Wednesday August 23, 13:30-15:30, Hall B3
Call My Net Corpus: A Multilingual Corpus for Evaluation of Speaker Recognition Technology
Karen Jones, Stephanie Strassel, Kevin Walker, David Graff, Jonathan Wright
Wednesday, August 23, 17:40-18:00 in the Agula Magna room
LDC will post conference updates via our Twitter feed and Facebook page. We hope to see you there!